Chinese Wooden Door of Hope Doll Representing Mourner

12" (30 cm.) Carved wooden head with natural polished finish,tinted eyes,brows,and shaded lips,black painted pate with long black queue,firmly stuffed muslin body. Condition: generally excellent,hempen jacket is very frail. Comments: Shanghai Door of Hope mission doll,circa 1930,representing a Mourner with two layer off-white linen robes over striped white silk pants with blue stripes,linen slippers,carrying cloth silk tassels,elaborately woven wide-brimmed straw hat. Value Points: a rare variation of the Mourner series by Door of Hope,the doll was gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1956.